I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
BEVERLY CLEARYI am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
BEVERLY CLEARYI just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
BEVERLY CLEARYI read my books aloud before they were published.
BEVERLY CLEARYIf she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
BEVERLY CLEARYI hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
BEVERLY CLEARYQuite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
BEVERLY CLEARYOtis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
BEVERLY CLEARYI wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
BEVERLY CLEARYI have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother’s cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
BEVERLY CLEARYI feel sometimes that in children’s books there are more and more grim problems, but I don’t know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
BEVERLY CLEARYThe humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
BEVERLY CLEARYAs a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
BEVERLY CLEARYI had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
BEVERLY CLEARYAll knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
BEVERLY CLEARYI don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
BEVERLY CLEARYI was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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